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Orders that include Highland bagpipes or smallpipes will receive free standard shipping, within the US. Electronic bagpipes are not included in this offer. Other items in the order will also ship for free, if they are not among the following exclusions: rentals, services, bass drums, or bass drum cases. Promotion applies to orders placed on or after October 1, 2014. Not valid with other coupons. Offer ends November 1, 2014.

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Bagpipe Music Writer Gold

This is a thorough system for composing, documenting, printing, and playing bagpipe music, with all of its special features and embellishments. The 94-page instruction book is a complete and easy-to-follow reference guide. Bagpipe Music Writer has been used in the publication of 30 well-known pipe music collections and instructional books, and is relied on by many bands. Robert MacNeil is a piper, composer, and adjudicator, who played with Simon Fraser University. The book comes with instructions for installing BMW on Windows 7 32- and 64-bit systems. Unfortunately, this product is not compatible with Macs.

Bagpipe Music Writer Features

Bagpipe Music Writer Gold supports the earlier DOS format BMW files. BMW Gold will open a BMW file and convert it to the new BWW format, which can then be saved. Page Layout and Printing Prints any type of Great Highland Bagpipe light music and piobaireachd (including abbreviations) on a Windows compatible printer.

Can include any of the following text items with the music: tune title, tune type, composer/arranger, footer, in-line text, text at a fixed location, and comments

Prints in portrait or landscape on any paper size supported by a Windows printer driver

Allows top, bottom, left and right margin setting

Allows font formatting for each text item

Scales music horizontally and/or vertically

Allows music to be printed on multiple pages or fit to one page

Bars can be vertically or not vertically aligned

Aspect ratio and size of music symbols and symbol spacing can be adjusted

Multiple tunes in a file can be printed on one page or across multiple pages

Screen Layout

Adjustable split screen with music codes in bottom window and displayed music in the top

Adjustable zoom (10-200%)

Can open several tunes at the same time

Icons for new tune, open existing tune, save tune in current window, print music, preview music, refresh music

Play Options

Can play light music (including flats, naturals, and sharps) and piobaireachd (including abbreviations) on sound card or PC's internal speaker

Standard music symbols (segno, dal segno, fine and da capo al fine) available for denoting and playing piobaireachd singling and doubling variations and for returning to and playing the first line of the ground, respectively

Music can be saved to a MIDI format file

Three MIDI note and Frequency configurations for sound output (Low A at B flat 466Hz, Low A at A natural 440Hz, or User Defined)

Multiple tunes in a file can be played together as a medley

Other Features

Bagpipe Music Writer GOLD is OLE compliant. Music can be placed in other OLE compliant Windows applications by linking or embedding a BWW extension file

Music can be saved to images files in BMP or PCX file formats. Resolution is set by the Zoom level